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Alogia: In psychology, alogia, or poverty of speech, is a general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech. As a symptom, it is commonly seen in patients suffering from schizophrenia, and is considered as a negative symptom. It can complicate psychotherapy severely because of the considerable difficulty in holding a fluent conversation.

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Psychopharmacology K&S Chapter 29 Alogia is a lack of speech that results from
a mental deficiency or dementia. Poverty of movement is called akinesia. Poverty
of emotion is described using the term “flat affect.” To meet criteria for the rapid ...

Alogia is a speech disturbance that literally means “speechlessness.” One form of
alogia is called poverty of speech, or poverty of content. The amount of speech of
these individuals is greatly reduced. In effect, they do not have much to say.

Alogia is a significant reduction in speech; the person may produce very few
words (Maxmen & Ward, 1995). In a similar vein, avolition means the individual
experiences a severe reduction in behavior in general, often failing to participate
in ...

Alogia is a loss of speech from defective intellection. The patient's power of
writing is necessarily interfered with when A., as is so often the case, co-exists
with right hemiplegia. We have, therefore, to differentiate: (1) Loss of power, both
of ...

Alogia is a loss of speech from defective intellection. The patient's power of
writing is necessarily interfered with when A., as is so often the case, co-exists
with right hemiplegia. We have, therefore, to differentiate: (1) Loss of power, both
of ...

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Alogia is a loss of speech from defective intellection. The patient's power of
writing is necessarily interfered with when A., as is so often the case, co-exists
with right hemiplegia. We have, therefore, to differentiate: (1) Loss of power, both
of ...

alogia to medieval times, when it referred to the house where the alms of the
monastery were dispensed to the needy. Many such institutions were built in the
United States during the Age of Reform from the 1820s to the 1840s, as were ...

alogia. Alogia is a failure of speech production, including poverty of SPEECH
PRODUCTION (that is, the amount of speech is low) and poverty in the content of
speech (that is, a very restricted vocabulary is used, speech ...

In schizophrenia, negative symptoms; included are affective flattening or blunting;
alogia, thought blocking, or poverty of speech; apathy, avolition, loss of
intentionality, and passivity; and anhedonia or asociality. Increases in negative ...